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Aboriginal Arts of Australia and the Islands of the Pacific, August 27-October 2, 1960

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Scope and Contents

An exhibition of art objects by aboriginal artists of Australia and Oceania, selected by the Legion of Honor from the collection of the Museum of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley.
The exhibition records span three folders and include a loan agreement, price list, planning correspondence, and registration receipts, plus photographs.

Dates

  • Creation: August 27-October 2, 1960

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

The price list must be redacted before viewing.

Biographical / Historical

The Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology (formerly the Robert H. Lowie Museum of Anthropology) is an anthropology museum located in Berkeley, California, on the University of California, Berkeley, campus. The museum houses Cafe Ohlone, the only restaurant in the world to serve Ohlone cuisine. Founded in 1901 under the patronage of Phoebe Apperson Hearst, the original goal of the museum was to support systematic collecting efforts by archaeologists and ethnologists in order to support a department of anthropology at the University of California. The museum was originally located in San Francisco from 1903 (open to the public as of 1911) until 1931, when it moved to the campus of the University of California, Berkeley. On the Berkeley campus, the museum was located in the former Civil Engineering Building until 1959, when, as the Robert H. Lowie Museum of Anthropology, it was moved to the newly built Kroeber Hall. For decades, the museum was considered as having the largest collection of its kind on the west coast. In 1991, the museum's name was changed to recognize the essential role of Phoebe Apperson Hearst as founder and patron. Today the museum functions as a research unit of the University of California. Many notable names in American anthropology have been associated with the museum. These include the museum's first director Frederic Ward Putnam, the anthropologists Alfred L. Kroeber, Robert Lowie, and William Bascom, paleoanthropologists Francis Clark Howell and Tim D. White, Egyptologists Klaus Baer and Cathleen Keller, and archaeologists Max Uhle, George Reisner, John Howland Rowe, J. Desmond Clark, David Stronach, Crawford Hallock Greenewalt Jr. and Patrick Vinton Kirch. It was also the final residence of Ishi, who lived there, in San Francisco, from 1911 until his death in 1916.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoebe_A._Hearst_Museum_of_Anthropology

Extent

0.1 Linear Feet (The exhibition records span three folders plus photographs.)

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Abstract

An exhibition of art objects by aboriginal artists of Australia and Oceania, selected by the Legion of Honor from the collection of by the Museum of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. The exhibition records span three folders plus photographs.

Related Exhibitions

Legion of Honor: Primitive Art: Study Exhibition for the Current Course, Primitive Arts and Folk Ways (1945)
Legion of Honor: Pacific Island Art (1951)
Legion of Honor: Matson Line's Exhibition of Australian Art (1959)
Legion of Honor: Aboriginal Arts of Australia and the Islands of the Pacific (1960)
Legion of Honor: Aboriginal Bark Painting from Australia (1963)
de Young: Australian Aboriginal Art (1974)
Legion of Honor: Spirit Country: Australian Aboriginal Art from the Gantner Myer Collection (1999)

Separated Materials

Installation photograph prints and negatives are housed in the Legion of Honor Exhibition Photograph collection in box 24.

Repository Details

Part of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco Archives Repository

Contact:
50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Dr
San Francisco California 94118 USA